Oil-saver.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

J. T.- GALLANAN.

OIL SAVER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 31,1905.

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,liki f i lf-l 'l. LALLANAN, OF PARKERSBURG. \VES'F V IRGINIA, Ai:'h--itl-l\'()h TO i tZZCERSBURG MACHINE COMPANY. OF PAlillEiifil'llh-ill'. WEST ataxia, A CORPORATION or wics'r VIRGINIA.

OIL-SAVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April :24, 1906.

Application filed August 31,1905. Serial No- 276,551.

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5 oi" .i st Y' 'gmni, have invented certain new and 'selul improvements in 01 Savers, t which the following 18 a specltieation, rel'erhad therein to the accompanying Ont-e being l-savers in which a tube or bari tes through the casing-head dithgi n experienced in pre ent ing oil iotl'z. from escaping through the no (ii 3 hereto bu so packing the cable within l as to prevent leakage. is is well '1 in th art, when an oil-saver is in hiring the operation of drilling the tube or be. 'uel rceiprocates with the drilling-cable, in damped thereto. When operating a l i iaclied to the cable, the barrel is ani e? secured to the casing hea-fl, the camieating through the barrel at such iary object of the present invenpack the cable Within the barrel p?- T =revented as well when the Ae ating through the barrel as rei is secured to and reciprocates it.

object is to provide improved or lumping the barrel to the cable.

1 l her biectis to improve the conine hilling-box, through which :ates.

ring drawings, Figure l is I. 'l view of an oil-saver eonnce with my invention. no plan view, taken on line .2

w the drawings, 2 designates the un 9 ilirt'ftfilllg of an oil or higdicad, having the 1" connections :l. Fitting as top of the ia i in place be screws i which tea 'ient means having been. pro- Secured to the upper end oi the barrel is head 12, which is open [or the pass.- g'e ol' the cable 13. The upper end ol' the hen l extended to form stuliing-box 1-4, and having threaded uniontherewith is head 15, which operates to depress gland us, and thereby compress packing 1T closely around the ca ble. By this means the cable is tightly packed, so that whether the cable is working with or independently of the barrel no oil or gas can escape from the barrel by passing upward around the cable.

in the u )er )ort ion ol head 15 the cablcpassage 1s intersected by the horizontal recess 1S, and confined therein by screw 1!) is the cable-clamping slide 20, having a central aperture through which the cable passes. A screw 21 operates to move slide laterally. as shown, thereby securely clamping the ca ble and causing the working portions of the saver to move therewith. Slide 20 is prel'erably square, so that as the aperture therethrough becomes worn the slide may be turned With either oi its four edges toward screw 21.

Then operating a swab, the saver-barrel is fixed to the casing-head, head 12 carrying the usual projections 12, which afford convenient means for chaining or anchoring the barrel to the using-head, with the former in lowered position. At such time clampingscrew 21 is relaxed and the cable is free to reciprocate through barrel 7 and the heads at the PDcr ends thereof. The cable then reciprocates through stui'ling-box 14, but is so packed that the oil or gas cannot escape upwardly therearound.

it usual to provide the lower end of the reciprocating barrel with a threaded sleeve or collar to i'orn a stop [or preventing the barrel from l entirely withdrawn from the (up, as might sometimes occur As ;he threaded sleeve or lit to work loose and drop oil" l d an h gialstop by flaring the i die barrel, as indicated min, :1 ver compressing head-uniting with the stuffingbox and also provided with a cablerel-passage, a barre assa e, and cable-securing means carried by t e he d. 2. In an oil-saver, the combination of a casing-head, a casin -head cap having a bara stufling-box r'orme on the upper side of the ca a gland-cornpressin ca aving threade union with the casingea cap, a cable stuffin -box carried by the upper end of the barre and cableclamging means.

3. 11 an oil-saver, the combination witha barrel adapted to reciprocate vertically and form a cable-passage, a head secured to the upperend of the barrel, the head being extended to form a stuffing-box, a gland-compressing1 head uniting with the first-menwithin the passage and 0 tioned ad, and cable-clamping means carried by the gland-compressin head.

4. In an oil-saver, the com ination' With a barrel ada ted to reciprocate vertically and form a cab eassage, of a head carriedby the barrel forrne with a cable-passage and also with a transverse angular recess intersecting the cable-passage, a clamping screw entering the assage and an an ular slide movable such form that any passage,

edge thereof may be presented to the clamp-- ing-screw, the slide having a cable-aperture.

5. A cable-securing device for oil-savers comprising ahead having a vertical cable-passage and a transverse recess intersecting said a cable clampin slide operative within the recess, the slide eing of such size and she e that it may be variously inserted within t 'e head-recess with diflerent ortions thereof in engagement with the cable, and slide-actuating means. v

6. A cable-securing device for oil-savers comprising a head having a verticalcable-passage and a' transverse recess of rectangular form intersecting said passage and at one end open through a side face of the head, a substantially square cable-clamping slide adapted'to .be variously inserted within said recess thereby en aging difierent portions thereof withthe ca%le, and slide-securing'means. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES r. CALLANANi Witnesses:

- J. M.- NEsBIT, I

ALEX: S. MABON 

